Alexander Langer wrote:
> 
> Thus spake Alexander Langer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 
> > If so, I'm going to write patches.
> 
> ... for almost every driver in the tree.
> 
> Hmm. EITHER almost all people never unloaded their driver, or I still
> understood wide parts wrong.
> 
> I grepped through /sys now and only 10% of the drivers save the rid.
> 
> Strange. Enlighten me, please. .-9

If a driver was written with expectation that it will be always
compiled in the kernel (as opposed to being loaded as a module)
then it never gets unloaded. And many drivers were written before
the loadable modules appeared.

-SB


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